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Two-stage genome-wide association study identifies integrin beta 5 as having potential role in bull fertility.
BMC genomics - 24 Apr 2009
Feugang Jean M, Kaya Abdullah, Page Grier P, Chen Lang, Mehta Tapan, Hirani Kashif, Nazareth Lynne, Topper Einko, Gibbs Richard, Memili Erdogan
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BACKGROUND: Fertility is one of the most critical factors controlling biological and financial performance of animal production systems and genetic improvement of lines. The objective of this study was to identify molecular defects in the sperm that are responsible for uncompensable fertility in Holstein bulls. We performed a comprehensive genome wide analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for bull...
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